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Course Overview
Around the Block: Navigating OG and Your K-4 Literacy Block
Around the Block: Navigating OG and Your K-4 Literacy Block
Having a hard time fitting in all your literacy instruction? This workshop will enable you to make the most of your literacy block by balancing whole group and small group instructional time. You will learn how to maintain a perky pace to keep students engaged, as well as planning targeted small group activities. This workshop will cover progress monitoring, class-wide mastery criteria, and how to provide cumulative review as you progress through the Scope & Sequence.
Who is this course for?
This workshop is designed for educators who completed past coursework in Orton-Gillingham (OG) and Structured Literacy (SL) and are interested in learning how to utilize their OG Literacy Block most efficiently. Please read more under prerequisites.
Course description
Having a hard time fitting in all your literacy instruction? This workshop will enable you to make the most of your literacy block, balancing whole group and small group instructional time. You will learn how to maintain a perky pace to keep students engaged, as well as planning targeted small group activities. This workshop will cover progress monitoring, class-wide mastery criteria, and how to provide cumulative review as you progress through the Scope & Sequence. This workshop provides twelve professional development hours that count toward annual OG Academy CEU requirements, plus OG Certified training for those who already have Associate Level membership through the OG Academy.
This workshop will address the components of a K-4 Literacy Block, including:
- Receiving an OG Scope & Sequence for grades K – 6
- Essential components of literacy instruction based on the Simple View of Reading
- Whole group & small group instruction
- Class-wide mastery criteria
- Teaching tips for cumulative review
- Lists of decodable text
- Lively vocabulary activities
- Examples of weekly schedules
- Small group activities & games
To be eligible to participate in this workshop, you must have either:
- Previous OG coursework (30 hours or more) through the Stern Center, another accredited OGA training program, or IDA-accredited program.
- If you took your training with another OGA or IDA-accredited program, please have a certificate of attendance ready to upload when you register.
- Examples of qualifying Stern Center OG coursework include:
- Introduction to the OG Approach (5-day course)
- OG Associate Level / OG for Intervention
- OG Classroom Educator
- Please note that 1-day workshops/webinars do not qualify as coursework.
OR
- Other credentials accredited by the International Dyslexia Association. Click here to view a full list.
- Have documentation of your credentials ready to upload when you register.
- Please note: only the credentials listed on IDA’s website qualify. E.g., for the Wilson Reading System, you must have obtained WRS Level 1 Certification by completing the yearlong training.
NUMBER OF PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT HOURS: 12
The live workshop is full. Please stay tuned for an asynchronous/on-demand version that will be offered soon after the live workshop (after Jan 21st).
Dates
Oct. 10, 2024 | Jan. 21, 2025
please email Jo-Anne Conant at jconant@sterncenter.org to be added to a waitlist.
Time
8:30 am – 3:30 PM EST
Course Number(s)
1489
Location and Format
Cost
$500
Grade Level
Audience
Amy Ducey, M.Ed., Fellow/OGA
Assistant Director of the Orton-Gillingham Institute
What Teachers Have to Say
Meet the Instructor(s)
Amy Ducey, M.Ed., Fellow/OGA
Assistant Director of the Orton-Gillingham Institute
Amy Ducey, M.Ed., a Fellow of the prestigious Orton-Gillingham Academy, is the Assistant Director of the Orton-Gillingham Institute. She provides training at the Orton-Gillingham Classroom Educator, Associate, and Certified levels, in addition to various literacy workshops and webinars. She teaches graduate-level courses and has created curriculum and assessment materials for universal screening and progress monitoring. […]
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Can OG be used in the classroom for general education purposes?
The Orton-Gillingham Classroom Educator is qualified to apply the principles of the Orton-Gillingham Approach to modify and provide literacy instruction in a classroom or small groups. To become an Orton-Gillingham Classroom Educator, you must have a bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution, do 30 hours of coursework by a Fellow or a Fellow-in-Training, and 50 hours of supervised practicum over eight consecutive months.
How can I become certified in Orton-Gillingham?
The prerequisites to become certified in OG include earning a bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution and satisfactory completion of Associate-level requirements; 100 hours minimum of coursework by a Fellow, or by a Fellow in Training as designated by the Fellow; and 200 hours supervised practicum over two academic years minimum, which includes ten entire 4–60 minute lesson observations of the trainee by a Fellow on-site, unedited video or web-based applications.
Is Orton-Gillingham a program?
A program is a plan, schedule or procedure to be followed to a specified end. A program provides structure but doesn’t teach and educator how to respond to different student errors and tailor each lesson based on student performance and individual learning needs.
An approach is the means adapted to tackling an issue. Orton-Gillingham is an instructional approach. It is most properly understood and practiced as an approach, not a method, program, system, or technique. In the hands of a well-trained and experienced instructor, it is a powerful tool of exceptional breadth, depth, and flexibility.
What is the Orton-Gillingham Approach?
The Orton-Gillingham Approach is the underlying foundation of all multisensory, structured language instruction. Orton-Gillingham (OG) systematically teaches the structure of the English language by incorporating multisensory modalities in a structured yet flexible approach, ensuring student success. The Stern Center’s Orton-Gillingham Institute is the only organization in Vermont that provides OG training accredited by the Orton-Gillingham Academy. We offer coursework and practicum opportunities toward three certifications: OG Classroom Educator, OG Associate Level, and OG Certified Level.
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